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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was your baby a preemie? This is the only case where I’ve heard anything other than tap/filtered tap water.[/quote]

Well that’s the thing. [b]You never heard about this due to the dismal lack of education about formula preparation in the US[/b]. Knowing the need to sterilize formula powder is standard in Europe. No this is not a preemie thing. To find out this info you actually have to dig deep into the websites at the CDC.

Ideally for the first three months of a newborns life since ready to feed is sterile it is recommended to feed rtf. If you need to use powder sterilize the powder. If those four babies’ parents were aware of this maybe those babies won’t be dead of severely ill.

As for my baby was fed formula prepared with room temperature water and did just fine, plenty of people eat raw cookie dough but some are the unlucky ones who get salmonella. It is impossible to remove all contaminated formula powder through food inspection, some will slip through the cracks.

Like any other type of food, formula powder is a food product. Just like a piece of meat is cooked to get rid of pathogens, formula powder has to be treated with hot water to sterilize it. The question of how hot is ~158F, hot enough to kill germs, but not so hot you strip the powder of nutrients. Essentially this is a food safety issue.[/quote]

BC people wouldnt use it as much if you had to do all this. It has been marketed as easy and no fuss AND that infants cant/wont die from formula specifically.  Especially for infants in daycare. They expect the bottles pre-made or just mix and pour. They will not prepare formula with boiling water and not everyone can afford RTF. [/quote]

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